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oblio.bsky.social
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Me: I’ll watch this Moo Deng video…huh, don’t know what the big deal is. Algorithm: This guy must LOVE Moo Deng - I’m gonna recommend all of the hippo-adjacent content I can find!!! Me: No, I just watched the one… Algorithm: YOU LOVE HIPPOS NOW
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…we get produce that’s plentiful, varied, and cheap. Farmers have the labor they need when they need it. The migrant workers get US$ that make their lives better back home. I’m not sure how disrupting this system makes anything better.
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The challenge for a lot of agribusiness is that they need a lot of workers to harvest, but that’s only seasonal work. Supplementing the workforce with immigrants who are willing to follow the harvests seems to be a win-win…
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“We got rid of the immigrants! Wait, why is produce so expense? And why is there a 2-year wait to replace my roof?”
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I call mine “lump” and they just roll over for a belly-rub.
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Here’s a solution:
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The re-re-naming of Fort Bragg is disingenuous at best, but the story of PFC Bragg’s life and service is worth reading.
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Here’s an obscure one from Rob Wasserman’s “Trios” album…
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I generally don’t like the framing “if it weren’t for X, we wouldn’t have Y”…but it’s hard to imagine Prince without Sly’s blueprint.
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Is the phrase “this is not what we voted for” ever used in a context that’s not criminally stupid?
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And, it can be an opportunity for pointless and narcissistic navel-gazing, too!
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CFB players have said that a CD academy teams are hard to play because they don’t get fatigued in the 4th quarter. Even if they’re not the best players, they never run out of gas.
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Behold! My management team in action! (Or is a croissant I had the other day?)
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Did you get the ones with the opening at the top? I’m a bit of an aficionado when in comes to mixing bowls, and in my opinion those are the best.
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I rewatched the movie earlier this year. Is it their best? Nope, but it’s got a decent plot, worthwhile villains (Sig Rumann!), and plenty of room for the Marxes to do their thing.
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Agreed! And the impact to the colleges should be minimal, even though they insist that a successful sports team benefits the whole school. My anecdotal observation is that you never read about a school lowering tuition because they just won an NCAA championship.
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“That reminds me…I must get my watch fixed.”
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My assumption is that someone told him it was a monumentally stupid idea, so he’ll do it for the rest of his life just out of spite.
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“Colleague”? That’s a supervisor if I’ve ever seen one. My supervisor:
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good piece highlighting the trend from @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Then they heard the same story from four more neighbors. Evidently, he was scamming multiple neighbors out of food with his “poor abandoned kitty” routine.
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My parents used to have an outdoor cat. Once, they went on vacation and arranged to have their next door neighbor give him food and water. When they got back, another neighbor told them, “Hey, did you forget about your cat? He was at our house begging for food.”
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My family predates the Revolutionary War, but due to my father’s Army service, I was born in a civilian hospital in Germany. It takes a ton of paperwork to prove that I’m not a Nazi spy!
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Bribes and graft don’t count as “business ventures”.
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A counter-argument: Republicans haven’t really cared about the rule of law since the days of Newt Gingrich…they’ll pay lip service to the idea when it’s politically expedient, but it’s not a principle that drives their actions.
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Also, if they’re making it more like a Fox News broadcast, will it include commercials for vitamin supplements, gold brokers, and ED treatments?